Its so fucking good. Its genuinely ahead of its time and a breath of fresh air. The communication is amazing. The relationship is healthy and every single time they had a disagreement they apologized and talked. Alex has empathy for DG and vice versa. Its so fucking healthy. The characters actually deserve each other in the relationship. Every time......
Straight romances suck most of the times, and straight smut is worse so I kinda crawled into Gl & BL and kinda stayed because it's friendlier to women, less childish while being wholesome, and the dudes actually express emotions in BL...
I kinda read BL for the spicyness of the smut sometimes, but mostly I find the sex scenes too long so I skip th......
i just dont like seeing how women are portrayed in manga, whether it be straight or not. it comes off too girly or sexual or helpless both storywise and visually. not to say bl doesnt have any of those tropes (often times its very obvious that the uke is written like a female character and just drawn with a male body). i just have a weird repulsion......
lol I read through the other answers, and its clear that everyone has different reasons...
So, first of all, I'd like to make it clear that the majority of us DO NOT fetishize gay men. It's ridiculous to think this way, because if anything we are fetishizing 2D characters or drawings??? (and honestly that harms no one) Most of us are probably too ......